GOP Housing Feud Goes From Simmer to Boil

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We told you last week about a growing note of discord between House and Senate Republicans’ political message on mortgage aid. While House conservatives lambaste the Obama administration’s $75 billion foreclosure plan as too pricey, their Senate counterparts are continuing to back a $121 billion-plus mortgage proposal from Columbia University professor and former Bush economic adviser Glenn Hubbard.

Now the intra-party tension over housing is becoming harder and harder to mask, as Roll Call reports (sub. req’d):

The [Senate GOP’s] plan would potentially cover trillions of dollars of real estate and cost taxpayers up to $300 billion in subsidies. It’s the sort of big-government spending plan that House Republicans have been railing against — at least when they come from the lips of Democrats.

But House Republican leaders have avoided criticizing their more centrist Senate brethren, preferring to focus their fire on Democratic plans to bail out struggling homeowners instead, like Obama’s $275 billion proposal announced last week to rework distressed mortgages to prevent foreclosures.

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